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Free motion on the Poisson plane and sphere

dg-ga 2008-02-03 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Poisson plane and sphere --- homogeneous spaces of Poisson groups E(2) and SU(2) (resp.) --- have phase spaces (corresponding symplectic groupoids), in which a free Hamiltonian is naturally defined. We solve the equations of motion and point out some unexpected features: free motion on the plane is bounded (periodic) and free trajectories on the sphere are all circles except the big ones.

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@article{arxiv.dg-ga/9612006,
  title  = {Free motion on the Poisson plane and sphere},
  author = {S. Zakrzewski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:dg-ga/9612006},
  year   = {2008}
}

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